God, can you move-in please!

How often do you pass a small temple on the sides of busy roads? Very often, if you travel to any part of the country you'll see a temple dedicated to a God ranging from a huge temple with sprawling lawns to smaller ones that are serving a local community.

India probably has thousands of major temples that pilgrims visit each year to mark momentous occasions in either the religious calendars or a special occasion in their earthly life journey. And then there are hundreds of thousands of smaller temples that occupy the nooks and crannies of the Indian maps. These are smaller in size, probably no bigger than a mid-sized studio apartment and house one or two Gods.

Some time back I wrote a post on the majestic Prem Mandir inVrindavan, comparing any temple with a house of God. The concluding paragraph from the post is as follows:

Temples are places of divinity but nothing seems to change in between the moments we go in and come out. However if we go inside a temple as a house and "meet" its owners, maybe even talk to them, then we might come out with a heart full of gratefulness and kindness.

So even though God is omnipresent but we build him a house and ask him to stay there for our sake. And he abides by our request and makes that temple his home. He doesn't ask any questions or make certain demands before moving-in! Wherever you make him sit He sits there and transforms the noisy hustle-bustle of the worldly place into a peaceful & divine atmosphere.

Even though he is called the almighty, omni-powerful, the creator and sometimes even the high & mighty but if you just tell him to be part of your family he humbly accepts it. So we just have to ask!